Tom Bailey, Wayne Risher and John Varlas of The Daily Memphian and Marc Perrusquia, director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, are among the winners in this year's Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors contest.

The Shelby County Health Department will soon renovate the former Scan Interiors building where it will consolidate all its environmental services, open a health clinic and distribute and store commodities.

After increasing the amount and lowering the cost of its development loan program last year, more than 50% of approved applicants for the Downtown Memphis Commission’s development loan program have been minorities.

The first gathering of black graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine this weekend will include the formal introduction of an endowment for scholarships for first-year black students at the college.